On 1st December, acclaimed artist Stuart Semple will host a live-art-letter-writing event in the Amnesty Shop @ BOXPARK (Amnesty’s first retail concept store, featuring collaborations by British...

An Amnesty International fact-finding team is in Egypt and available for interview. The team is in Egypt investigating human rights violations committed against protesters in demonstrations in Cairo...

“My house, possessions, clothes, all went up in smoke. Nothing was left” Cambodian Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights are increasingly at the forefront of the battle against a...

Lengthy prison sentences given to 16 men - including prominent advocates of reform who had tried to set up a human rights association in Saudi Arabia - are a worrying development According to reports...

A 20-year prison sentence for sending four text messages deemed offensive to the Queen of Thailand is a blow to freedom of expression, Amnesty International has said. Amphon Tangnoppaku, 61, was...

On Nov 28th Amnesty International launches its first-ever concept shopping emporium, in London’s unique shipping-container-department-store, BOXPARK Shoreditch. Throughout 2012 Amnesty Shop @ BOXPARK...

The Belarusian authorities must immediately release a prominent human rights activist convicted today on politically motivated financial charges, Amnesty International said today. Ales Bialiatski...

Authorities in Cameroon must immediately release two men who have been sentenced to five years in prison by a court in Yaounde for homosexual acts, Amnesty International said today. A third man was...

A power-transfer agreement reportedly granting Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and others immunity from prosecution in exchange for leaving office, deals a serious blow to victims of human rights...

‘The true test now will be the speed, extent and seriousness with which the government follows through on the BICI's recommendations’ - Philip Luther Amnesty International has urged Bahrain’s...